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The service was clipped and unsmiling, which is usually followed by ` but efficient, 'but we sat with mostly empty dinner plates for 15 minutes, the kids (and their parents) getting restless in the hot side room.

Two portraits from the 1870s by the remarkable See Tay also known as Liang Shitai—one of a palace eunuch in Peking, another of the mighty politician Li Hongzhang—reveal a diversity in pose and expression that defies the stereotype of Chinese portraits as stiffly unsmiling and frontal, as in court painting.